Algorithms Contract Job Trends in the North West

Algorithms
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 98 134
Rank change year-on-year -39 +36 +38
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 6 22 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.25% 0.94% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.69% 3.23% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 4
10th Percentile - £372 £499
25th Percentile £160 £455 £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £180 £489 £700
Median % change year-on-year -63.19% -30.14% +31.76%
75th Percentile £334 £518 -
90th Percentile £426 £585 -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £635
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.51% -9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £57.25 £53.75
% change year-on-year +17.03% +6.51% -3.90%

All Generic Skills
North West

Algorithms falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 870 682 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.66% 29.18% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 355 565
10th Percentile £214 £292 £248
25th Percentile £358 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £672
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 30 37
10th Percentile £16.19 £19.97 £16.15
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.25 £21.36
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% -25.71% +94.44%
75th Percentile £56.27 £45.89 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £88.05 £67.30
England median hourly rate £29.14 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -36.91% +2.62% +47.54%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Algorithms relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Algorithms job vacancy trend in the North West

Algorithms
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Algorithms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the North West over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in the North West

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Algorithms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lancashire -5 4 £180 -67.27% 8
Manchester -11 2 £399 -18.62% 21
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 1 (16.67%) JPA
1 1 (16.67%) JWT
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) API Development
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
3 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (16.67%) Data Science
3 1 (16.67%) Database Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft